So....what was inside Jerrys onstage tent????

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Binders of women

Jerry with Manasha and Keelin (and a young Grahame Lesh) backstage Oakland Coliseum.

Perhaps Grisman was expected to stop by?

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The dirty, greasy, briefcase

Cigarette butts and lists.  Many, many lists.

 

backstage Cap Center

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Just saw parts of the CNN show on Chicago and they had a phone booth looking thing on stage they could go into to do coke. And they did. No one could see in. 

now we know why he ducked out during the Spoonful jam at MSG

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Jerry

There was a blow tent at the OCF during a certain Dead members performance, well, was up all weekend, never had one of those in mainstage camp before, lol...   (but some pros preferred being around sound crew, less hero worship than in musicians camp).  Things were free flowing, but nothing for sale, lol...

Ya know what would be really groovy? If we had a little tent back here. Cause if it rains, all my blow is gonna get really damp.
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Awesome Alan!!!! I knew someone here had this information!

HeyAlan-can I share some music with you?

That would be the hippest, Man!

Grateful Dead caterer: "Because backstage was chaotic, a lot of time I served the band in a little quarantined corner of the stage, which was more secluded than their dressing rooms. And they could practice if they wanted to, in relative peace and quiet."

Somewhere in one of the more recent books I remember reading Jerry kept pretty darn isolated in his little back-of-the-amps tent in the later years. And that Bobby was the only bandmember that stopped in occasionally to visit. When Jerry was ailing, it probably had a trashcan to pee in and a chair. 

photo of one of the super-innie backstage "tents"

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Speaking of backstage, here's an entertaining story - stick with it as he doesn't get to the show part for a while:

https://tangledtalesofanamericanfamily.com/2016/04/17/i-go-backstage-wit...

[Scott I'm still wading thru a pile of "Arthur" CDs (from a dude named Arthur) and along with that Phish jams-only website I recently got turned on to, my ears are booked for a while. So sometime in the future, sure thanks.]

Got a bunch of those "Arthur" Cds myself.

 

^ So funny. (I have hundreds to listen to. I should toss them out just for the scrawled labels.)

Weir tent mention:

"Backstage, we kept each other amused. Keeping each other entertained and amused was what we were all about. Someone was visiting us – some big mucky-muck of some sort – and Jerry and I and our roadie Steve Parish were back in the little guitar tent on the back of the stage. And we were just hanging like crows on a fence, just kicking stuff around and yucking it up. And this guy was sort of aghast at what we were doing – this was some serious dark humor going on back there. And Jerry looked up at him at one point and said, “You see, comedy is what we’re really about. The music, yeah, this music thing is all well and good, but comedy is what we’re really about.” There was this ring of truth to that."

a slightly related topic: backstage refreshments: Jerry Garcia Band, 11/12/1976 – Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA

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^Jerry livin' the high life. A long way from 710!

This is the only real photo I could find of inside Jerry's "tent":

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This is the accompanying funny story about a guy (a Hawaiian newscaster and dive buddy of Jerry's) who took his parents to a show (backstage tent mention):

I can't remember why I thought this was a good idea. We were visiting my sister in Half Moon Bay and I got tickets to the Dead at Shoreline and took my parents. My father was 89, my mom in her mid 80's. They were cool. My father liked big band swing music. When I was in high school I took the stereo speakers and put them 18 inches apart (before personal headphones) and made my mom lie down and listen with her head in between the speakers. I turned up Truckin' really loud. I'm not sure if she really enjoyed that, but she talked about it a lot.

...Here we are going in through the gates at Shoreline and I get searched and the gate guards find and confiscate my pint bottle of tequila. This is off to a bad start. My mom starts into the "why do you need liquor? Are you an alcoholic?"  I said, "Mom, when the hallucinations from the mushrooms get too intense, you need a shot of tequila to tone things down."  She did not find that amusing. (For the record, I did not take mushrooms with my parents at a Dead show.)

My dad walks in and looks at the sound system and can't believe any musical group would possibly need that many speakers. He got his money's worth looking at the stage before anything even started.  My mom is enjoying watching all the freaks.

The Dead start playing and my father breaks into this @!#@ eating grin.  He leans over to me and yells, "Holy cow! They must be able to hear this all the way to Half Moon Bay!"  I'm thinking, pop they haven't even started yet.  So the first set gets underway and the crowd is dancing and the band is okay, but I can tell my parents are not getting it.

End of the first set I can't believe it. Jerry launches into Dark Star.  First ever first-set Dark Star for me. I thought I was dreaming. This is not real. I had a dream I took my parents to a Dead show and they played Dark Star first set. Nah, that's a funny dream. But it's really happening. My father leans over says, "Now this is GOOD. I like THIS." Who needs schrooms at a moment like this.  They seque into Promised Land to finish the set.

I escort the folks to the side of the stage and tell a security guy that Steve Parrish told me to drop by. He grabs Parrish, who says "Hi Dick! Are these your folks? Let's go meet Jerry."
Garcia has a tent partition set up behind his amp and he's sitting there in a director's chair.  We chat for a while and my mom starts telling him the story of when I made her listen to Truckin' with her head in between the stereo speakers at full volume. He is bemused (photo of this moment attached.)  We pose for a photo (attached).  As we're leaving my mom tells Jerry, "I really want to hear Truckin'!"  I cringe and tell her, "Mom, these guys don't take requests and they don't play their greatest hits."

So we're out for the second set and Jerry walks over coming out of a song and cups his hand and yells something in Bob Weir's ear. Bob shrugs, "okay" and they launch into Truckin'.  So my mom is dancing in her dragon shirt, waving her arms and acting like quite the little Deadhead.   The band gets to the buildup at the end, where they repeat that phrase higher and higher, then Phil Lesh drops the bomb and the whole thing hits critical mass.  My father standing there agape with his mouth open, eyes wide, stunned.  He later tells me, "They levitated the whole audience!"

The band noodles off into weirdness and the drum solo happens.  Back home with the sister my mom is telling the famliy how they played TRuckin'.  My father is telling everyone how the band levitated the entire audience with one chord, and they he starts trying to explain how the band drifted off into some strange form of music and all of a sudden before you knew it, it was just the drummers and they were pounding on all these big drums.... "  

I'm sitting there with a big grin on my face listening to my 89 year old father trying to describe the indescribable.

 

That's a good Grateful Dead story.

And that WAS a good show.

It was indeed - I was there.

Good Story Alan- Thanks

>>>> 89 year old father trying to describe the indescribable

>>>> band levitated the entire audience with one chord

He did a good job describing it.

Hey Alan!

I get it but look up Golden Road, Beyond Description and All Good Things ALBUM boxes and the shitload of bonus studio outtakes, many havent heard them.

Do you have this folks/Alan???

 

Disc one: Birth of the Dead, disc 1[edit]

Birth of the Dead: The Studio Sides

"Early Morning Rain" (Lightfoot) – 3:22

"I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 2:41

"Mindbender (Confusion's Prince)" (Garcia, Lesh) – 2:41

"The Only Time Is Now" (Grateful Dead) – 2:24

"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead) – 3:17

"Can't Come Down" (Grateful Dead) – 3:04

"Stealin' (instrumental)" (Cannon) – 2:40

"Stealin' (w/ vocals)" (Cannon) – 2:36

"Don't Ease Me In (instrumental)" (traditional) – 2:01

"Don't Ease Me In (w/ vocals)" (traditional) – 2:02

"You Don't Have to Ask" (Grateful Dead) – 3:35

"Tastebud (instrumental)" (McKernan) – 7:04

"Tastebud (w/ vocals" (McKernan) – 4:35

"I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 2:36

"Cold Rain and Snow (instrumental)" (traditional) – 3:15

"Cold Rain and Snow (w/ vocals)" (traditional) – 3:17

"Fire in the City" (Krug) – 3:19

Disc two: Birth of the Dead, disc 2[edit]

Birth of the Dead: The Live Sides

"Viola Lee Blues" (Lewis) – 9:39

"Don't Ease Me In" (traditional) – 2:43

"Pain in My Heart" (Neville) – 4:24

"Sitting on Top of the World" (Chatmon, Vinson) – 3:51

"It's All over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 5:12

"I'm a King Bee" (Moore) – 8:52

"Big Boss Man" (Dixon, Smith) – 5:11

"Standing on the Corner" (Grateful Dead) – 3:46

"In the Pines" (Bryant, McMichen) – 4:55

"Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Johnson) – 4:15

"Next Time You See Me" (Forest, Harvey) – 2:47

"One Kind Favor" (Hopkins, Taub) – 3:44

"He Was a Friend of Mine" (traditional) – 4:45

"Keep Rolling By" (traditional) – 7:57

Disc three: The Grateful Dead[edit]

The Grateful Dead

"The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Grateful Dead) – 2:07

"Beat It on Down the Line" (Fuller) – 2:27

"Good Morning Little School Girl" (Williamson) – 6:32

"Cold Rain and Snow" (Grateful Dead) – 2:26

"Sitting on Top of the World" (Jacobs, Carter) – 2:43

"Cream Puff War" (Garcia) – 3:18

"(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) – 5:16

"New, New Minglewood Blues" (traditional) – 2:40

"Viola Lee Blues" (Lewis) – 10:09

"Alice D. Millionaire" (Grateful Dead) – 2:22

"Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)" (Jones, Shade) – 2:24

"Tastebud" (McKernan) – 4:18

"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis) – 5:20

"Viola Lee Blues" (edited version) (Lewis) – 3:00

"Viola Lee Blues" (live at DANCE HALL, Rio Nido, CA 9/3/67) (Lewis) – 23:13

Disc four: Anthem of the Sun[edit]

Anthem of the Sun

"That's It For The Other One" – 7:40:

"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)

"Quodlibet For Tenderfeet" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir)

"The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get" (Kreutzmann, Weir)

"We Leave The Castle" (Constanten)

"New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Petersen) – 8:26

"Born Cross-Eyed" (Weir) – 2:04

"Alligator" (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 11:20

"Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 9:37

"Alligator" (live at SHRINE AUDITORIUM, Los Angeles, CA 8/23/68) (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 18:43

"Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" (live at SHRINE AUDITORIUM, Los Angeles, CA 8/23/68) (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 11:38

"Feedback" (live at SHRINE AUDITORIUM, Los Angeles, CA 8/23/68) (Grateful Dead) – 4:01

"Born Cross-Eyed" (single version) (Weir) – 2:55

Disc five: Aoxomoxoa[edit]

Aoxomoxoa

"St. Stephen" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 4:26

"Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:32

"Rosemary" (Garcia, Hunter) – 1:58

"Doin' That Rag" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:41

"Mountains Of The Moon" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:02

"China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:40

"What's Become Of The Baby" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:12

"Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:29

"Clementine Jam" (studio jam 8/13/68) (Grateful Dead) – 10:46

"Nobody's Spoonful Jam" (studio jam 8/13/68) (Grateful Dead) – 10:04

"The Eleven Jam" (studio jam 8/13/68) (Grateful Dead) – 15:00

"Cosmic Charlie" (live at AVALON BALLROOM, San Francisco, CA 1/25/69) – 6:47

Disc six: Live/Dead[edit]

Live/Dead

"Dark Star" (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 2/27/69) (Grateful Dead, Hunter) – 23:18

"St. Stephen" (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 2/27/69) (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 6:31

"The Eleven" (live at AVALON BALLROOM, San Francisco, CA 1/26/69) (Hunter, Lesh) – 9:18

"Turn On Your Lovelight" (live at AVALON BALLROOM, San Francisco, CA 1/26/69) (Scott, Malone) – 15:05

"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 3/2/69) (Davis) – 10:28

"Feedback" (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 3/2/69) (McGannahan Skjellyfetti) – 7:49

"And We Bid You Goodnight" (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 3/2/69) (traditional-) – 0:37

"Dark Star" (single version)" – 2:44

"Hidden Track" (radio promo) – 1:00

Disc seven: Workingman's Dead[edit]

Workingman's Dead

"Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:45

"High Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:14

"Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:14

"New Speedway Boogie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:06

"Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 3:16

"Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:43

"Easy Wind" (Hunter) – 4:58

"Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:38

"New Speedway Boogie" (alternate mix) – 4:10

"Dire Wolf" (live at VETERANS MEMORIAL HALL, Santa Rosa, CA 6/27/69) – 2:31

"Black Peter" (live at GOLDEN HALL COMMUNITY CONCOURSE, San Diego, CA 1/10/70) – 9:07

"Easy Wind" (live at SPRINGER'S INN, Portland, OR 1/16/70) – 8:09

"Cumberland Blues" (live at OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, Corvalis, OR 1/17/70) – 4:52

"Mason's Children" (live at CIVIC AUDITORIUM, Honolulu, HI 1/24/70) (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, Weir) – 6:32

"Uncle John's Band" (live at WINTERLAND ARENA, San Francisco, CA 10/4/70) – 7:57

Disc eight: American Beauty[edit]

American Beauty

"Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:18

"Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, Dawson, Hunter) – 3:24

"Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 3:19

"Operator" (Ron McKernan) – 2:25

"Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12

"Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:09

"Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:09

"Till the Morning Comes" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:09

"Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:14

"Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 5:17

"Truckin'" (single edit) – 3:17

"Friend of the Devil" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 5/15/70) – 4:21

"Candyman" (live at WINTERLAND ARENA, San Francisco, CA 4/15/70) – 5:18

"Till the Morning Comes" (live at WINTERLAND ARENA, San Francisco, CA 10/4/70) – 3:20

"Attics of My Life" (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 6/6/70) – 6:31

"Truckin'" (live at LEGION STADIUM, El Monte, CA 12/26/70) – 10:10

"Ripple" (single mix) – 4:09 (hidden bonus track)

"American Beauty Radio Spot – 1:00 (hidden bonus track)

Disc nine: Skull and Roses[edit]

Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses)

"Bertha" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 4/27/71) (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:43

"Mama Tried" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 4/26/71) (Haggard) – 2:43

"Big Railroad Blues" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER, New York City, NY 4/5/71) (Lewis) – 3:35

"Playin' in the Band" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER, New York City, NY 4/6/71) (Hart, Hunter, Weir) – 4:40

"The Other One" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 4/28/71) (Kreutzmann, Weir) – 18:07

"Me and My Uncle" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 4/29/71) (John Phillips) – 3:04

"Big Boss Man" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 4/26/71) (Dixon, Smith) – 5:14

"Me and Bobbie McGee" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 4/27/71) (Foster, Kristofferson) – 5:42

"Johnny B. Goode" (live at WINTERLAND ARENA, San Francisco, CA 3/24/71) (Berry) – 3:44

"Wharf Rat" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 4/26/71) (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:32

"Not Fade Away > Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER, New York City, NY 4/5/71) (Holly, Petty) – 9:26

"Oh, Boy!" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER, New York City, NY 4/6/71) (Petty, Tilghman, West) – 2:50

"I'm a Hog for You" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER, New York City, NY 4/6/71) (Leiber, Stoller) – 5:20

"Hidden track" (radio spot) – 1:00

Disc ten: Europe '72, disc 1[edit]

Europe '72

"Cumberland Blues" (live at WEMBLEY EMPIRE POOL, London, England 4/8/72) (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 5:43

"He's Gone" (live at the CONCERTGEBOUW, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5/10/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:57

"One More Saturday Night" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/24/72) (Weir) – 4:49

"Jack Straw" (live at L'OLYMPIA, Paris, France 5/3/72) (Hunter, Weir) – 4:49

"You Win Again" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/24/72) (Williams) – 4:00

"China Cat Sunflower" (live at L'OLYMPIA, Paris, France 5/3/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:32

"I Know You Rider" (live at L'OLYMPIA, Paris, France 5/3/72) (traditional) – 5:03

"Brown-Eyed Woman" (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL, Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:38

"It Hurts Me Too" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/24/72) (James, Sehorn) – 7:20

"Ramble on Rose" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/26/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:04

"Sugar Magnolia" (live at L'OLYMPIA, Paris, France 5/4/72) (Hunter, Weir) – 7:10

"Mr. Charlie" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/26/72) (Hunter, McKernan) – 3:39

"Tennessee Jed" (live at L'OLYMPIA, Paris, France 5/3/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:18

"The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)" (live at JAHRHUNDERT HALLE, Frankfurt, West Germany 4/26/72) (McKernan) – 6:50

Disc eleven: Europe '72, disc 2[edit]

Europe '72

"Truckin'" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/26/72) (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, Weir) – 13:06

"Epilogue" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/26/72) (Grateful Dead) – 5:10

"Prelude" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/26/72) (Grateful Dead) – 7:37

"Morning Dew" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM, London, England 5/26/72) (Dobson, Rose) – 11:41

"Looks Like Rain" (live at WEMBLEY EMPIRE POOL, London, England 4/8/72) (Barlow, Weir) – 7:42

"Good Lovin'" > (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL, Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Clark, Resnick) – 18:30

"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" > (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4/14/72)(Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 4:39

"Who Do You Love?" > (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL, Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Ellas McDaniel) – 0:22

"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" > (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL, Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 1:43

"Good Lovin'" (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL, Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Clark, Resnick) – 5:59

"The Yellow Dog Story" (Hidden Track) (live at WEMBLEY EMPIRE POOL, London, England 4/8/72) (Grateful Dead) – 3:09

Disc twelve: Bear's Choice[edit]

History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)

"Katie Mae" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Hopkins) – 4:44

"Dark Hollow" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 2/14/70) (Browning) – 3:52

"I've Been All Around This World" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 2/14/70) (traditional) – 4:18

"Wake Up Little Susie" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Bryant, Bryant) – 2:31

"Black Peter" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:27

"Smokestack Lightning" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Howlin' Wolf) – 17:59

"Hard to Handle" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 2/14/70) (Isbell, Jones, Redding) – 6:29

"Good Lovin'" (live at FILLMORE EAST, New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Clark, Resnick) – 8:56

"Big Boss Man" (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 2/5/70) (Dixon, Smith) – 4:53

"Smokestack Lightning" (Version Two) (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 2/8/70) (Howlin' Wolf) – 15:11

"Sitting on Top of the World" (live at FILLMORE WEST, San Francisco, CA 2/8/70) (Chatmon, Vinson) – 3:20

Great "I Took My Parents To See The Gratefu Dead story. 
 

Here's the show he's discussing.  

https://archive.org/details/gd91-08-16.sbd.braverman.6676.sbeok.shnf

I'll have to go back later and check out the Fire On The Mountain>Truckin' transition.  They launch into a 20 minute Truckin'.  Jerry must have really enjoyed meeting the parents!

Got a bunch of those "Arthur" Cds myself.

Heh! Arthur has burned and given away more CDs than anyone I know. I had to ask him to stop a long time ago LOL!

^^ Scott - that's a lot of good ol GD. And I believe you are in contention with JP for longest list posted on the black screen in 2022. I think you broke my scroll bar.

^ Woz - hilarious. True and same. (I've known the guy for about 45 years, so you can imagine how many illegibly labeled tapes / CDs I've got on the shelf. They drive me crazy. Pre-internet he was a valuable resource, though.)

Gotcha Alan but it's a lot of great stuff worth listening to.